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The Library and Research IT are currently recruiting for a Research Data Management Service Design Analyst to help define and develop a UC Berkeley Research Data...Read more about Join our team - Research Data Management service design analyst

In November, Camille Villa, Research IT'€™s Digital Humanities Assistant, represented the DiRT Directory at a workshop on User Interface and Software Sustainability in the humanities and social...Read more about DiRT Directory presented at workshop on software sustainability at King'€™s College London

On November 13, 2014, version 4.1 of CollectionSpace was released. CollectionSpace is an open source, web-based museums collections management and information system, now a part of...Read more about CollectionSpace 4.1 released

Research IT is happy to announce that in November 2014, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive began using CollectionSpace as the collection management system for their art collection....Read more about CollectionSpace launched for the BAM/PFA Art Collection

Quinn Dombrowski, the Digital Humanities Coordinator in Research IT, has been elected to the Executive Council of the Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH), the US-based professional organization for digital...Read more about Research IT Digital Humanities Coordinator elected to executive council of national organization

Micronet, a UC Berkeley group for campus IT professionals, celebrated its 25th birthday on October 31, 2014. Founded in 1989, Micronet has become one of the oldest IT-related communities on campus; and also one...Read more about Micronet user group for campus IT professionals celebrates 25th anniversary

The “Digital Humanities at Berkeley” initiative, which has been supported by the work of Research IT staff since its inception, has been bolstered by a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, as reported by the UC Berkeley News Center piece “...Read more about Digital Humanities program receives million grant

Research IT Associate Director Patrick Schmitz and Near Eastern Studies lecturer Laurie Pearce have been co-leading a Fall 2014 seminar on prosopography, sponsored by the Social Science Matrix. Prosopography is a research...Read more about Social Science Matrix seminar sparks conversation on scholarly tools

Data centers consume approximately 2 percent of the nation’s electrical energy, and roughly half of that is consumed by the IT equipment. Berkeley Lab researcher Henry Coles and Berkeley Research Computing HPC consultant Yong Qin recently published a paper with implications for improving the...Read more about New paper evaluates server energy use